Thousands swallow live fish as wonder cure
Updated on Jun 09, 2009 08:16 pm IST
Hundreds and thousands of people jostled in Hyderabad on Monday to swallow medicine stuffed inside live fish-a treatment believed to cure asthma and other respiratory ailments. Hyderabad's Bathini family has been performing the medicinal ritual for centuries now. Patients who came for the first time also sounded quite confident about the wonder cure.
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